My birthday was last week.... and I'm an old lady now. 32. Not sure how quickly that happened. I remember being 21 like it was just like two years ago. Ugh..... time goes by so quickly. BUT I did buy 2 tickets to see Ed Sheeran in concert in Portland in June as a late celebration. I am so excited. Greg bought me the CD and apparently CD's are like really not the main way of getting music anymore, well I didn't know that until my Husband went looking for birthday presents for me. Once again shows how old I am and how out of touch with society (besides my kiddos) I have become. Kids will do that to you; occupy a lot of your time ;). But he did find it and so I'm sharing one of my favorite songs. Love........... \
Ed Sheeran Photograph
Monday, March 16, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
It's March 2015!
Another update on our family happenings. Most all of us are doing well. The weather is getting warmer and we have been hitting up the park a lot more lately, which is nice. The park has it's great things but also it's bad things. To be honest the park is the place I like going to but also don't like going to. That doesn't make sense unless you are a parent like me of a 'different' child. Every park trip is interesting, we always get the kids who surround Kyla asking her questions, won't leave her alone even though she has already tried to answer their questions, run away from her once they see her arm, etc. I know it's going to happen but it doesn't mean I'm not going to take my kids to the park to play, we just deal with it, I sometimes have a few quick tears (not around the kids) and we for the most part have a good time out of the house playing in the sun, being a normal family. Regardless, I'm just glad summer is coming. The girls are I just got back home from a grocery store trip and there was a mid aged boy who had autism pretty badly (I am guessing) and he was not having a good trip out...lots of looks, lots of stares; but not from me or Kyla. LOL...and I told Emma to stop staring. I can relate..not to that extent, but I can relate and feel for those parents. They are struggling....although they have a child that is mentally having troubles, they still have to go to the grocery store just like everyone else. Anyhow, times like this make me realize just how good we do have it as far as Kyla's difference..she is completely normal to me...and to the rest of her family.
We made our annual Shriner's trip about a month ago to Spokane. We got some bad news being that they have changed their policies and they no longer fund for other prosthetic doctors to make prosthetics for their patients. So basically, before, Shriner's would cover the remainder of the cost of the prosthetic that insurance didn't. Which for Kyla's last prosthetic was over 1K. We paid that out of pocket since we were not yet setup with Shriners and now that we are, they change their policies. LOL, so once she needs another one we will have to make the 3-4 trips to Spokane in order to get the new prosthetic for her. It's a bummer, but whatever... Then earlier this week I just took Kyla to our local prosthetics doctor at Hanger and he made some adjustments to her prosthetic since she has grown so that it will fit her better. The next day after he made these adjustments she wore her arm for all of ballet and for like 2-3 hours following class, which was really good for her.
Only other news really is we meet later this week with Kyla's new school's headmaster. This school is very small, it's a Christian Academy and not accredited by Washington State, but it is in the same building she is in now for Preschool (which makes it nice since Emma is registered to start preschool this coming year) so less trips for me or whoever will be dropping them off/picking them up. Although this school is small, I did tour another Christian private school about 2 weeks ago that is much larger and felt more like a public school and I just didn't get a super great feeling about it. So we will see how this meeting goes with this other smaller school and go from there. With Kyla's monthly tuition and Emma's preschool tuition, I need a job, very very soon. It's been really difficult for me to find something part-time that still pays enough to make it worth it and can work with my husband's crazy work schedule and my kid's school/activities schedule. I've found and applied for several though and have had no luck. And for jobs I really feel I am over qualified for...but such is life, I am going to keep trying and if we get down to the point where I can't find something PT I'll take a FT job for now and continue to look for PT. The job I had interviewed for a few months ago would have been great, with NY Life but they did not want to pay me what I need to make it work for our family so it just didn't work out, which is a bummer because I saw the guy I would have been working for earlier this week and he just seemed like he would have been a great guy to work for, oh well. I do see myself going back to work at PNNL but it will have to be the right job, not just any job, we will see. Kind of funny because I talked with some of my old managers and co-workers a few weeks ago and I just don't think everyone thinks of things the way I do, of course my old Manager is very career driven, where as my #1 most important thing to me is my kids. Always has been and always will be. I've seen other kids at Kyla's preschool whose Mom has gone from not working at all to working FT and it has not been good on the kids... I also have been a caregiver for my niece for almost a year now while my Sister works FT and it does make me sad for those parents/children because they are missing out on so much, so many precious moments and opportunities with their children. Speaking of my niece, she's 1 in early April and I did just recently tell my Sister that I am not going to be able to watch her this summer on because I need to focus on job searching for myself and also summer activities like soccer (Kyla will start Upward Soccer soon) and swimming lessons. It's ridiculous that my kid is working on 6 years old and still doesn't know or have a clue how to swim. It's actually scary for me as a parent to not be able to trust my kids around water.... so I've found that our local Racquet Club does private 1-on-1 lessons so we plan to do that a lot this summer.
Overall monthly tuition for both kiddos will be like paying daycare all over again and then some since I will need to find someone to help pickup the kids and be with them for a while, while I work. I am trusting that it will all work out somehow....
Kyla has also been struggling with school, her teacher talked to me earlier this week and said she has just all of a sudden decided to not do her papers during class. She will sit and play with her pencil, play with her hair, etc. and comes home with blank incomplete papers, so I am taking the time in the afternoons to work with her making her finish up her work that she didn't get done during class. Regardless the teacher and I know that if she doesn't do it at school, I'll make her do them at home... little turd...she is the sweetest girl, has the sweetest heart of about any kid I know but she is also hard-headed and in her own little world a lot of the time. From getting dressed in the morning, to eating her meals, to doing her school work, it's all usually a struggle to get her to stay on-task or focused, so I'm hoping this will change, but we will see. Emma is very much the opposite, but all kids are different. Another thing that makes the job thing hard for me is Emma is still very much attached to me. She has been with me every day since the day she was born, she is 3 in June...she is used to Mom and her family and not a ton of other people....so school next year will be a big adjustment for her. I think all 2nd children are much less independent than their older siblings. Just kind of how it works out.
Need to get going.
We made our annual Shriner's trip about a month ago to Spokane. We got some bad news being that they have changed their policies and they no longer fund for other prosthetic doctors to make prosthetics for their patients. So basically, before, Shriner's would cover the remainder of the cost of the prosthetic that insurance didn't. Which for Kyla's last prosthetic was over 1K. We paid that out of pocket since we were not yet setup with Shriners and now that we are, they change their policies. LOL, so once she needs another one we will have to make the 3-4 trips to Spokane in order to get the new prosthetic for her. It's a bummer, but whatever... Then earlier this week I just took Kyla to our local prosthetics doctor at Hanger and he made some adjustments to her prosthetic since she has grown so that it will fit her better. The next day after he made these adjustments she wore her arm for all of ballet and for like 2-3 hours following class, which was really good for her.
Only other news really is we meet later this week with Kyla's new school's headmaster. This school is very small, it's a Christian Academy and not accredited by Washington State, but it is in the same building she is in now for Preschool (which makes it nice since Emma is registered to start preschool this coming year) so less trips for me or whoever will be dropping them off/picking them up. Although this school is small, I did tour another Christian private school about 2 weeks ago that is much larger and felt more like a public school and I just didn't get a super great feeling about it. So we will see how this meeting goes with this other smaller school and go from there. With Kyla's monthly tuition and Emma's preschool tuition, I need a job, very very soon. It's been really difficult for me to find something part-time that still pays enough to make it worth it and can work with my husband's crazy work schedule and my kid's school/activities schedule. I've found and applied for several though and have had no luck. And for jobs I really feel I am over qualified for...but such is life, I am going to keep trying and if we get down to the point where I can't find something PT I'll take a FT job for now and continue to look for PT. The job I had interviewed for a few months ago would have been great, with NY Life but they did not want to pay me what I need to make it work for our family so it just didn't work out, which is a bummer because I saw the guy I would have been working for earlier this week and he just seemed like he would have been a great guy to work for, oh well. I do see myself going back to work at PNNL but it will have to be the right job, not just any job, we will see. Kind of funny because I talked with some of my old managers and co-workers a few weeks ago and I just don't think everyone thinks of things the way I do, of course my old Manager is very career driven, where as my #1 most important thing to me is my kids. Always has been and always will be. I've seen other kids at Kyla's preschool whose Mom has gone from not working at all to working FT and it has not been good on the kids... I also have been a caregiver for my niece for almost a year now while my Sister works FT and it does make me sad for those parents/children because they are missing out on so much, so many precious moments and opportunities with their children. Speaking of my niece, she's 1 in early April and I did just recently tell my Sister that I am not going to be able to watch her this summer on because I need to focus on job searching for myself and also summer activities like soccer (Kyla will start Upward Soccer soon) and swimming lessons. It's ridiculous that my kid is working on 6 years old and still doesn't know or have a clue how to swim. It's actually scary for me as a parent to not be able to trust my kids around water.... so I've found that our local Racquet Club does private 1-on-1 lessons so we plan to do that a lot this summer.
Overall monthly tuition for both kiddos will be like paying daycare all over again and then some since I will need to find someone to help pickup the kids and be with them for a while, while I work. I am trusting that it will all work out somehow....
Kyla has also been struggling with school, her teacher talked to me earlier this week and said she has just all of a sudden decided to not do her papers during class. She will sit and play with her pencil, play with her hair, etc. and comes home with blank incomplete papers, so I am taking the time in the afternoons to work with her making her finish up her work that she didn't get done during class. Regardless the teacher and I know that if she doesn't do it at school, I'll make her do them at home... little turd...she is the sweetest girl, has the sweetest heart of about any kid I know but she is also hard-headed and in her own little world a lot of the time. From getting dressed in the morning, to eating her meals, to doing her school work, it's all usually a struggle to get her to stay on-task or focused, so I'm hoping this will change, but we will see. Emma is very much the opposite, but all kids are different. Another thing that makes the job thing hard for me is Emma is still very much attached to me. She has been with me every day since the day she was born, she is 3 in June...she is used to Mom and her family and not a ton of other people....so school next year will be a big adjustment for her. I think all 2nd children are much less independent than their older siblings. Just kind of how it works out.
Need to get going.
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